first edition Boards
1935 · Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
by MacNAIR, Ian & Ruth
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Artists and Writers Guild, Inc, 1935. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Boards. Very good. “Authorized Edition”, First American edition thus. 8vo; [20pp]; color pictorial boards; illustrated title page; color illustrations every page except title; light scuffing to boards, light age toning of paper; very good. Story in rhyme by a British sailor about a Chinese child who leaves his family’s sampan, meets a pig, and becomes a Chinese laundryman. Racist language. (Inventory #: 316)